A Formal Model for Risk Assessment in Software Projects

Abstract

The current state of the art techniques of risk assessment rely on checklists and human expertise. This thesis introduces a formal method to assess the risk and the duration of software projects automatically. The method has been designed according the characteristics of evolutionary software processes such as productivity, requirement volatility and complexity. The formal model based on these three indicators estimates the duration and risk of evolutionary software processes. The approach introduces benefits in two fields: a) automation of risk assessment and, b) early estimation method for evolutionary software processes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA382304

Entities

People

  • Juan C. Nogueira

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adaptive Systems
  • Business Administration
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Families (Human)
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Management Personnel
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Risk Analysis
  • Software Development
  • Software Metrics
  • Software Prototyping

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Software Engineering.